Resizing album art for mobile MP3 players
February 23, 2010 in album art by Dan Gravell
When it comes to album art, bigger is almost always better. Having a high quality, high resolution album cover to view on your computer or media centre is the least you want if you've spent time installing the art in the first place (but you could make it dead easy).However, we don't always look at album art on big screens on high resolution displays. Sometimes we view album art on our portable MP3 players or mobile phones, which have much smaller screens. At best, having high resolution album art is a waste of space on mobile devices. At worst, the album art may not even display if the MP3 player cannot downscale (make smaller) the graphics.
So how to fix? Well, you could go through your hundreds of albums, extracting art, resizing it, re-embedding it......
Or you could enforce the album art size as a rule with bliss.
Use the settings screen to set your minimum and maximum sizes for art:
Configure bliss to keep all art within size constraintsbliss will ensure all art in your collection conform to this rule. If art is too big, it will be resized. If it's too small, new art is looked up on the Web. All with a couple of clicks. And, of course, the same rules are applied automatically when you add new music, so you only need to configure once.
There you have it: complete album art for your mobile phone or MP3 player, with more storage space for more music.
